OMG! Look at this ike error overstrike cent die, and the asking price! BUT WOW!

Totally cool IMO! I'd rather buy a small island... but if you're an error collector...
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Neat looking coin but it's hard to believe it was "accidentally" created and then got out of the facility without a little help. An Ike in the penny line? No one noticed?

Oh yeah, $185,000 for anybody wondering.

 

Amazing Error but I see $1.02 .

 

Apparently mint employees had a lot of fun in the early 70's.

 

Right! An Ike somehow ended up in the penny press, then miraculously bounced it's way back into the dollar bins? Hmmmmm

I'd like to think that $185K is astronomically outrageous, but I'm not familiar with the errors market and I've been surprised before. Any knowledgeable folks here that can provide some perspective?

 

How can you get a certified coin when you know there was some trickery done.

 

Someone must've been pretty drunk!!!to bad neither of them were DD's that would be incredible.

 

The reverse strikes don't look aligned with the obverse strikes.

 

Interesting piece. I think the slab label is incorrect. Only overstruck once.
The coin was only struck two times. Once for Ike, and once for Abe.

 

I wonder exactly how confident the PCGS folks can be that this was done at the Mint, and not by some enterprising entrepreneur with fake cent dies.

(I was about to say "...that this is a legitimate error", but I just can't choke out that line for something that was so obviously done on purpose.)

 

I don't see how this was done by accident. Did the dollar find itself in the penny press and then back in the dollar spot?

 

Sort of takes the wow out of it when you think on it...

 

Possible: Yes
Probable: No

 

You know, actually, to really put this "Mint Error" in perspective, the Mint could make these, today. Who's buying? I mean this is a complete joke, when you think of it like that. But then somebody at that time, 1972, in the U.S. Mint, actually did this. So it is very, very rare. But it's no "Mint Error" because it's impossible without artifice. It's like AE ("Artificial Error"). Did this smart horse just invent a new numismatic term PCGS could use in its glossary so as to not deceive collectors as to the true nature of this, um, "Mint Error?" Otherwise they look pretty dumb, don't they, representing this as a "Mint Error?" What fool but them would believe that? And this is in a "PCGS Genuine" slab, a premium slab. Lol, they actually got paid extra fee to get this wrong for their market. What a joke.

 

Yeah, it's pretty egregious.
Yes, an Ike could have gotten stuck in the hopper. Then found its way to the cent press.
I sure would have made it clear that this was not what happened. I don't believe it for a minute, and would not have put my name on it

 

I know. Admit it, you got horse sense, I don't care you're just a human.

 

MEF: Mint Employee Fraud. The perfect classification for this, the various struck-on-pocket-contents examples, and the 1913 Liberty nickels.

(Edit: and let the record show that I posted this BEFORE I spotted @Randy Abercrombie's new thread about the 1913 Liberty nickels.)

 

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There has to be a joke in there somewhere about a six-figured mint "error" coming from employees screwing around on taxpayer money. (Not a judgement, I might have done the same in their position.)

 

Ike dollars are notorious for stuff like this. Coin World did an article about Ike "errors" not too long ago. Some people at the Mint were definitely messing around. No way these were accidental.